With numerous legendary champions over the years, including Walter Hagen, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, and Brooks Koepka..the PGA Championship has continued to remain a highlight of the PGA Tour calendar, drawing massive audiences and providing thrilling moments for golf fans worldwide.
So we sat down with 6-time major champion & 28-year CBS commentator Sir Nick Faldo, Eric Cogorno and Donnie from Performance Golf to discuss the rich history of the PGA Championship… From Tiger’s epic playoff against Bob May to Rory’s dominant victory, Sir Nick shares strategies of past champions and his insights on the course setup, the importance of driving accuracy, and the mental fortitude required to succeed in major championships.
With consistent top players like Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler entering the field.. Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club… which longshots will stun the golfing world?
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[Music] all right everyone welcome back Eric and Donnie here with performance golf joined by Sir Nick Faldo Sir Nick how you doing I’m fit and healthy and getting stronger by the minute literally we see you’re tuning in from the Montana house with our little mini house uh we’re on our land we wanted to be living on our land our farmhouses are being built um at the other end of our land so um which obviously I can see out the window so yeah that’s we’ve been in here a while and and going through winter and uh are we going to tell everybody had surgery so um I’m four weeks and four days from having right hip replaced so um amazingly all went really well I mean you know it’s a don’t tell me what the operation look like I don’t want to know but you know they s a ball on soccer on a blood bloody steak in you about this big or something and um and you know 4 hours after the operation I was first in at 5: in the morning and operated at 7 and by the time you’ve woken up night you’re walking at 11:00 you know with on a walker which bling the mate and they go and doc say you can put 100% weight on it and you know I was really stuffed is a technical phrase and I was I don’t know how bad it was I was crawling to the bathroom in the middle of the night I couldn’t put my weight on my right hip it was just it was deteriorating so fast over the last four or six months pretty amazing yeah we saw you here in the studio standing up it didn’t yeah it didn’t look good yeah I mean I was hobbling around all of that and you know and it got worse and wor really I I really I couldn’t really I had to use the furniture to walk around the house and they did that and bang and here we are four weeks and then you know the best you’re really uncomfortable for about two and a half weeks my leg swelled up and all that but then last Friday four weeks I did a physio session and she’s given me lots of tough um you know little mini squatty exercises and things and standing on steps and dropping your foot and I’ve never in my life you if if an instructor say do three sets of 10 I’ll do three sets of 10 whatever the weight might be I don’t know but I can’t do it I actually can’t do three sets I can’t do one set of you know I you’re joking so that’s the first shock of my life there I’ve really really got to build this up I’m I hate to think yeah I’m probably only at 30% power in that right leg if I haven’t used it for six months so anyway I’m good it’s going to be great swing’s going to be awesome I’m going to be busting it over 250 again so can’t wait you’re going to be able to you’re going to be able to relate to a lot more golfers who are trying to swing around injuries because that’s a huge thing in golf now this will be this will be fully mobile which is pretty pretty impressive anyway so that’s that’s my update here so yeah I’m looking forward on I’m on countdown now we got a couple of weeks to the Masters so can’t wait get back into the golf season out of curiosity Sir Nick what’s a Time frame for you to be like swinging a club again how long does that take with your recovery no I think I think another um well I’m already doing half swings I’m you know I’m swinging I got I got I got a heavy baseball bat which I swing on our our front porch in the sun which is nice get the sun on my back up here and just do a few little so it’s moving pretty good I hit 12 balls or so into my net with a nine9 I I don’t push it just yet so you know I’m trying to be sensitive I’m ask him what I can do and so you know I’ll give me a couple of weeks and then um obviously I’ll be teeing it up in the fifth major at the uh at the path three Augusta National so that’s going to be my first ad Adventure onto a golf course I’ll go and play the power three that’s a perfect distance for me now yeah short short wed obviously we wish you wish you well with the recovery sure we lots of wedges off a t off a TEEG easy peasy love it so obviously Sir Nick uh Donnie today’s episode we want to talk more about PGA Championship this year um at bajala obviously there’s some awesome Epic events there over the years um we’re involved in a Ridder cup there in ‘ 08 we had tiger and Bob May in uh what was that 2000 I believe obviously Rory in 2014 yeah so yeah I I think starting with the G to start with the golf course first maybe before some of the events so Valla golf course as a whole Sir Nick for the people who are going to be watching anything stick out to you in terms of how the course is set up or things about that Golf Course for us to look for when we’re watching the tournament yeah a lot of trees um um lot of awkward so when we first went there God I remember doing that one the 96 it was so hot in practice around him and you got back to the clubhouse at the 12th hole and you thought yeah I’m going I’m going in it was that hot and um yeah you know he’s got he’s got holes through Little Valley bits like you know two and three some awkward little short fours kind of opens up then you’ve got very tricky hole what one is that that’s was about the six or something four five oh we five and six I think three is the power three is it can’t remember you know three four um that that one when you play a second shot across the Ravine very difficult CU if you touch the rough boy you got you actually had to just chip it out which is nothing worse than just chipping out 30 yards to keep it because you couldn’t get across then they got that wacky par five which had double Fairways I’m not too sure if they shut a fairway down at one of those pgaas just normally double Fairway and they went for just one Fairway that’s the super long number seven looks like number seven’s a super long par five yeah he had a lot going on on that hole big Fairway over there skinny went up the left lot of stuff through the middle um awkward little par three after that nine or nine went up the hill yeah then you went into the woods for 10 and 11 12 yeah as I said trees a lot of trees as you start the back nine actually a lot of the the whole b n through the trees isn’t it really so they’re very much in play then it opens up down 17 and 18 back to being so um yeah I never I never played that course well can’t you know deleted can’t remember what I did around the course so um um probably found it stinky Hot August August in were we there in August no we wouldn’t be there in August it wasn’t the last well I think it used to be August right yeah it was no it was late wasn’t it yeah no you’re right BJ was always the last one of course it was August a so I probably struggled with the heat on to around that course and I think the obviously they had the 96 which which you referenced Mark Brooks beats Kenny Perry Kenny Perry like a sort of Hometown guy in there but I think when people think balla at least for me I remember like it was yesterday watching tiger and Bob May the freaking three- hole playoff and you you played in that you were there playing that week I was there you were there I believe you were there playing I think that was a couple of that was a couple of tigers iconic uh moves chasing after the part pointing that the part going in yeah that that week for you anything stick out I mean obviously when I look back on that you got the tiger pointing you got him and Bob May in the playoff and I think and I didn’t know this when I looked up Valla was designed by Jack Nicholas the Jack Nicholas design course I didn’t know that and I read the PGA owned part of it then bought sort of the majority of it and then ended up selling it yeah PJ was always yeah yeah you’re probably right they probably had a fraction and then they wanted to make it their uh one of their homes so um or their home PGA Championship they keep going back there what every five years or so so yeah I I you know I don’t I this is not goingon to be a good episode folks because I don’t have good I don’t have good memories of playing it and course I don’t have good memories from the rder cup so yeah and then so obviously after the the 2000 like you know gosh I mean we were we were probably like middle schoolish watching that back then yep and then 2008 Ryder Cup obviously we were there I don’t know how much we do or don’t want to um dive into that and then 2014 Rory you know goes back to vajala and wins wins the PGA by by quite a bit let’s say for your playing history Sir Nick bahala side PGA Championship what what point for you in your career did that become a priority a major you look forward to was it ever that for you yeah well obviously the fourth major end of the season um you know they they I remember they took us to some some weird and wonderful places where it struggled it used to struggle to be honest it struggle with atmosphere um you know they’ managed to beef it I think they probably in their own words once once John Daly won it um but I’m sure I played through the 80s and you know I remember you know it just wasn’t it’s simply that there wasn’t enough people around you used to by time you went out in the woods down you know 13 14 15 or something there was very few people around um played a couple of funny one you know I play I played with Jack at uh you know in Alabama at uh was that sha Creek is that the Sha Creek one um the one that trino won that one and the rough was brutal um I better start that again was that was that what is that right Sha Creek is the Alabama one I’m looking right now yeah sha Creek I played with Jack 84 wow 84 84 I played with Jack there one that trino won yeah he shot four rounds in the 60s think on about the second or third hole Jack had it in the right hand rough went in with a nine iron and went and it went a yard so you imagine that play with Jack and just watched it go and the ball went right and you’re like oh don’t tell anybody that one and uh Jack had a terrible t-shot somewhere on the back night and we Jack was smart you know he never lost his head in public and we were way back in the trees and there was nobody around and I heard WP with the driver into the ground so that was the only time Jack was really cheesed off so um um I played better there in another time or some oh I really screwed up next time we went there in what in 1990 92 is the the year you had you got second right 0 that was year 1990 we went back to CH Creek I think and I was and I blew it on satday Saturday I shot about 80 or something blam me I don’t know 92 was pricey yeah I was had a good chance and that was a weird week I actually you know it sounds I actually finished second and I didn’t do anything I came I sat there and I said I don’t believe I finished second because I didn’t do anything any good this week it felt like so um you know whether that’s a good thing or but you know take that more as a positive look I didn’t even feel like I had my game and I still finished second so I deemed that one I could have but you didn’t somehow for some reason I couldn’t turn it on um so I always struggle with the setup to be honest they really they really brought you know I’m not a fan of you know that first first thick rough straight off the Fairway because it stifles you completely I mean you know I do remember actually hitting the that 92 one I hit a 6ine out of the whatever left rough onto the and it was a career shot which is great that’s what you want you actually want you know to be able to do it but anytime you’re in there and you just take a wedge and chopping it out I think that switches off I know it did it switched off the better players because it’s like you’ve stifled their creativity nothing better if you’ve in the rough and it’s a a I mean I mean a career shot to hit the thing on the green well I think the players should be given that opportunity and if you’ve hit the Fairway whether then you can get over a bunker or whatever and get close to the flag but I think it keeps the better players um Alive and Kicking to um to stick in with it you know like same as us opens us opens when you miss the fair and you just chopped it out anybody can do that can’t it you know so I think that kills so you know it struggled for a while to really give it some oomph but it’s obviously built up over the years um and got bigger and bigger and better and better and of course the Rory one I thought the Rory one was was pretty special was crazy wasn’t it the um that’s the first time we saw there a couple of memories from that I mean there was a couple of t-shots it was the first time in Rory really suddenly was this great driver of the golf ball I mean he made a couple of swings where you just went wow I remember that one I think it was off 16th T he walloped was because he was was I Stenson was in another group I mean he hit it 40 yards past Stenson or something crazy like that and um and then we had that ridiculous situation when they were trying to finish in the dark and remember doing obviously CBS and we’re up there going you know it was like it was like the lads finishing say oh let’s play an eight ball down the last so we can all finish you it was just it was almost as crazy like as that so uh um that’s most of my memories of of that particular week yeah I think that obviously the Roy that week was crazy to watch this was I was looking up some of the results you had here Sir Nick just kind of a jog down memory lane Donnie this is might be kind of crazy for you to hear and for you guys listening make sure you got the prize money as well I’m G to throw some dollar signs in here so you wait you waiting to hear the prize money the guys guys are tipping more than that now so this is I got a little chart here Sir Nick of your finishes in majors and certainly there’s some great ones before this and there’s some great ones after this but starting in ‘ 86 at the open not the British Open just the open in ‘ 86 listen to this Donnie we go 5ifth 1 then we had a little you know 28 30th 2 3D 5ifth 1st 18th 11th 9th 1 3D 1 and then 19th 12th 16th 17th 16th 13th 4th 1st 2 that’s a run of major championship finishes C Nick for you from 88 to about what 93 92 93 mhm yeah unbelievable unbelievable consistency in the uh how many top yeah I think they there’s a stat isn’t there for top threes or something in Majors yeah I was looking at some of that too it’s it’s almost it’s almost I mean Jack obviously the JS the up the crazy one 19 top fives there we go 19 yeah not bad which is are you kidding me 19 top fives which is right up there with you had eight top fives in the open alone it’s crazy yeah yeah are his are your stats the same at the open as they are at the PGA is that what I’m seeing here one one second one third and four top fives sure are yep one second one third and four top fives US Open yeah US Open US Open and the PGA are the exact same stats that’s wild yeah I was God a long time ago BL me it’s interesting to look at that was pretty consistent you know that’s what we were uh might be one thing you’re known for yes you were yeah I mean you guys like talking golf swings and that sort of thing but that’s when I started really working on shaping the ball you know get little Fades little draws and I and if you can do that uh my argument is you can go for more Flags or you just got a better percentage and they call it proximity to Hole now but you know it’s is it is it a birdie chance or not and that’s all you’re trying to create in a round isn’t it and I know when I was playing really well I might have a dozen birdie chances in a round and if you if you’re at that number as as I’ve I’ve said or you probably heard me say if you’re putting badly you’re making whatever two and three birdies if you put medium you make four to six and if you put great you make eight birdies you got statistics on your side uhuh that’s how you that’s how you and if you keep churning that out day after and then that was day after day that you have got close to a dozen birdie chances well you you’ve you’ve you’re in control of the golf game or your golf game and that’s I personally think that’s you know even all my TV time when they kept coming up with stats that’s all I wanted to know who was on and they definitely worked on some courses or a lot of course you know proximity to the whole really stood up somebody said it the other day I mean it’s still it’s still a it’s still I think that’s personally that’s the number one stat because that’s that’s the goal isn’t it how easy how presentable are your birdie chances the statistics to win the statistic to win a major how close are you hitting it yeah I mean you’re take because you’re taking the pressure off yourself I mean you’re just there all the time and you’ve only got to get a really good eye in and which you do some days you know which is crazy isn’t it how you can look at the part you think you’re looking at the a part the same each day and some days you feel oh I canot this and some other days you’re missing by an inch left right left right it’s you know when you look at these stats and I it can’t help to like reference full swing because I I watched the first season again my fiance needed to see it and then I just watched the second season and I look at Brooks right and it’s like Brooks just shows up for Majors like he shows up that’s statistically that’s what he does so when you think about that mindset like obviously majors are important they’re the most important terms of the year but is there like a is there do you turn on another gear do you turn on another switch what’s the what’s the difference between the season and the majors I think it’s the intensity level and how you can cope with it because obviously every generally you would say everybody is ramped up at majes you’re going to be hyped up a bit more so do you have the ability to knock it down a touch so you’re not super hyped up about everything you’re nice and comfortable because you know other guys are their wheels are spinning too fast and so you know that um and also having that ability to turn up as you see just turn up the volume on all your all your senses sort of thing you you know you concent ation the decision making is all a little bit better and and if you keep churning out lots of good gol shirs you wear you wear everybody down I mean that’s you look how tiger had won and he look at that spell when Brooks was winning using him as an example you keep churning out good shots which is back to my proximity to all you keep look at when Jordan spei had his run as well my goodness you know everything was flag High inside 15 ft um you and you and that’s a me that is a mental state as well so it’s a mental strength R isn’t it mental strength to keep churning that out obviously it’s a good golf swing because you got to strike the ball how you intend and if you strike it correctly then it goes then it will go the distance you intend so put all of that together but I think it’s I think it’s more that you love that there is more um intensity there’s more meaning to shot um you know you come right out the gates day one even on Thursday and every shot is really important every shot is a step towards getting to that 72nd green so you know you put all of that together that’s what I enjoyed it is there’s a because you know you knew you know that a lot of guys could handle that they’re going to fall at the Wayside it’s it’s and you know the half a dozen guys that can hang on to it so you’re trying to be you’re trying to be one of them also the energy of the of the event like it’s interesting you’re talking about there’s not there wasn’t a lot of people at the PGA you don’t hear a lot of guys talk about like how many people are at the event watching and I mean did does that make much of a difference I mean you’re yeah atmosphere is really nice isn’t it really you know you you want a buzz around you um cuz you in the good old days people walked a lot with you you know you you had your own little group of fans and they came with you for the full 18 holes was a lot of holes didn’t um and you it created that that energy there’s a bit of Buzz going on and you and I know on some occasions You’ be like oh you know I know in a couple of open when you arrive on the green you see see a whole Hillside of people and you start thinking oh if I hold this p and they’re all going to go nuts and you see what you visualized I mean I you know and I thought oh if I hold this I’ll go like that you know you even you actually visualize your reaction and sure and so can what a so again it’s the power of of um you know a visualization so you’ve actually seen it Go in that’s really good for youve seen how you’re going to react they react great feeling inside so I know when you do that that’s it it’s great right on to the next one start again at the next hole Yeah I was talking about the energy during full swing I was watching the fit Patrick brothers and did did you watch it yet I did seric did you see did you see did you see the new season no I haven’t yet so the his brother his brother’s name is Alex right so his brother Alex plays in the open and I just felt like I could relate with him he was so relatable and when he was playing well that was one of the first times I like took account of that crowd I’m like whoa the pressure you know I could I could like feel his pressure in that you know you watch Sir Nick with a huge crowd around him it’s like okay well he deals with this pressure right but with watching Alex it was like I could feel the pressure that I think one of us would feel yeah yeah that was good that was from ho Lake last year it wasn’t it he he had a great open yeah exactly yeah and he and he and he reacted exactly that it’s it’s a lovely feeling to play with grand stands full and you want and he want that reaction obviously Sir Nick you put a ton of practice into it and that the preparation for these tournaments plays into that but speaking of like you enjoying that feeling and knowing how to handle that is that something for you in these Majors you you found came pretty easy for you that was natural or really took you a lot of time to learn CU like you said you go to a tournament if there’s only a handful of guys that can handle it in your mind is that more they’ they’ve got that they’ve developed that any thoughts on that yeah was it’s all about Comfort zones isn’t it I think you know you is a good way I’m trying to trying to cast my mind back you know going to your very first opens but I think it’s if you are infused and you’re energized by it and you’re not fearing it you’re you know that’s that’s already a good start I’m sure some guys go and think holy crap this is way way too much for me right and fortunately I never went to an open and said that I went it’s like wow I love this this it’s like get me in the Deep I’m fine and I’m still learning I mean gosh you know it’s my first opens um gosh way know 76 was at burkdale then I did turn it said 78 my that was my first good open really good open I finished four shots back Jack one at s Andrews I finished four so I actually felt like I was in it and loved it and it’s and it’s like a that’s the drug isn’t it of the majors of wow I could I can I can operate with in this atmosphere that’s what all you’re trying to do and and um can you keep ramping up your your your level and you enjoy being in that atmosphere so if you feel good and feel comfortable and it makes you focus a little more and you never you know you makes you try a little more because you never want to give up a shot and every shot’s really important and um you know as we as we talked you remember I mean me talking about I had no problems in focusing on a shot because you know when the whole story I told you about you know practice in a Welling garden with just the one green one flag one bunker so every shot so I had no problems in focusing well i’ I’ve talked to some young golfers and they could oh you know I I I lose it on the golf course I I I can’t concentrate I’m like wow you’ve got to you’ve got to step that up mate because I so I that was self-taught um so I’ve never had a problem at all about being switched on and giving the each shot 100% um you know preparation and and belief as well I mean you’ve got to have 100% belief you can’t you can’t look down and go well you do you look down sometimes and go I don’t like it but you got to be able to deal with it not every shot you’re going to like but you got to know how to deal with that when you look at the line think Crepes don’t like that that’s thin that’s sitting on Sand damp sand it could have just explode and I’ve now got this shot so you better know what to do to deal with if you’re still going holy holy crap I don’t know what to do well sure you’re they going to screw up so I’m sure I did but you know you you build up your strength mental strength to dealing with a lot of things so you you know you keep churning out your shots are a little bit better than the average guys around you that’s all you’re trying to do it’s fascinating has like a lot of the simple basic stuff just done well oh I’m tell the the the tip that he when you told the story story about practicing the one green for all those years every time I hit golf balls now I can’t stop thinking about that I go to a range I pick one flag and I practice the whole like all the way through the set to that to that green it’s it helps so much cuz you know before that it’s just to get up there and trying to hit straight shots all the time at that flags and you’re not doing it and then you’re getting frustrated and it compounds when you pick that flag and you visualize the shots you’re hitting in that that has helped me tremendously I think that that’s a huge huge takeaway for a lot of golfers yeah and step back here here’s a tip you know you step you rake balls over and you hit them don’t you rake and the best thing to do is stop and stand back behind it and have a look and imagine you’re on the golf course and that right now it’s just one ball it’s not a pile of them I’m now going to hit this I’m going to give this next ball full attention so that’s another really good trick on the range and then um and even now little it can be little things you can be hitting wedge shots to a flag and experiment with experiment with grip pressures is hilarious squeeze it a bit tighter it might go it’s going to go left or right I mean we’re all different aren’t we so little things tiny little things when you um which I love you know it keeps you keeps you focused and interested and constantly learning and um all those things hopefully put you in good stead for when you really need it yeah totally maybe you’ve heard that before from your coach once or twice about my I think all golfers would be far better off if they did something closer to their full routine and treated each shot like they did on the course um but in terms of the PGA Championship I’m interested to get you guys thoughts on this looking back at the previous winners cuz I was looking at this Sir Nick and and I’m trying to draw some correlations between the players who are winning and commonalities they have right obviously Brooks last year um 2023 Justin Thomas 2022 Mickelson Colin morawa Brooks Brooks Justin Thomas Jimmy Walker Jason day Rory Etc when you’re looking at the PGA Championship and you’re looking at the Players today that there are or in the past is there anything you notice with a player’s game that lends well you know the top tier guys that have a real real chance of winning is it like the quality of the ball striking step number one the um when you listed the off and I was there to quite a lot of those going back can’t remember how well Jason day hit it when he won at uh Whistling Straits wow I mean that was he was busting it he was that was the one of the first guys starting to bust it you know drives of over 300 yards and all that sort you know when you reel reeled off that list the first club that came out was driver they seemed to said you know is that Jason day drove great obviously Brooks kep drives great um Rory they seem to said you know they obviously it is a premium on many golf courses but um maybe what I was talking about the rough you got to stay out of it and you know you’re not going to win from the thick rough you really aren’t so that was my first thought well which is always a good thing I think it Maj it you you want you want everybody to be well you want your Champion to be the best in in all departments and um but definitely drivers seem to stick out that how important it is um just to take the pressure off otherwise you’re chipping out sideways that’s that’s I was describing yeah yeah it’s interesting as you go back further too and you look at the tiger same thing VJ sing David Tom’s great striker of the ball Tiger Tiger VJ Davis Love back in the the the Sir Nick Prime about a driver yeah it’s definitely a driver isn’t it it seems like definitely the driver is a is a really Key Club Nick price Steve elkington I mean these are all pain to good ball Strikers yeah it’s also interesting at Valla you look at the winning scores are on the higher end of the spectrum too meaning like lots under 2000 Tiger shot 18 under um got into a playoff and won and then this most recent one Roy also shot 16 under so seeming pretty getable relative to well it’s because it’s August and hot and humid soft greens that’s really it I mean that’s the golf course is soft getable yeah and so you know anytime you create a soft any guy time a guy knows you can fire a forine and agree it’s going to stop in the yard it’s be a little earlier in the season now it’s true yeah it might it might be a little yeah might be a little different going in May um it might be I’m sure it still be warm there it should be actually perfect weather when you think of it way a May in that part of the world um yeah that might change it they might have an opportunity if you get it dry get a little firmer it could play then it would that would change the scoring considerably so that would that would be kind of nice it would be uh I think any major when it you’re throwing darts it’s a shame put it that way it just it it takes out a a huge element of the player being able to do all these calculations and it’s another calculation when they when they know wow I’ve got to land it here wow how much room have I got to work with where is it going to bounce where is it going to stop I think that is that takes any tournament especially major uper Notch that it’s you really are being you you reward then you really do reward the guy who um well look what happened to Augusta when we went to November 20 under wasn’t it Dustin winds at TW I mean you there’s probably more I assume more um Masters one in sing single digits and double digits I guess because when they if they get the greens rock hard then um the whole strategy changes well speaking of the conditions being different obviously with the US Open and Pinehurst we’re going to talk about that next episode uh that may be set up in June a bit more like the those golf courses maybe we we want to see but anything else guys in the PGA Championship I think we got an awesome golf course we’re going to have a great field I think it’ll be an awesome tournament very Rory’s playing well and he won here these I mean Scotty Sheffer ton of wins yeah you got the other guys a lot of guys playing well right now do you any take on who’s who’s playing well right now leading up to this well it’s a bit early considering we’re doing this before austa um and it’s you know if if as I were describing if they do get the little bit of firmness and then I think it brings all the the better ball Strikers to the top of the leaderboard it kind of makes sense that way I mean it gives if it’s soft it gives more CH guys a chance to just fire and just plug it in there but um right now I guess it’s all the obvious names few youngsters are coming through you know some some some guys are really learning fast uh Windam Clark being the obvious one um so right now as I sit here no I don’t know any anything we we’re going to find out interesting no Brooks kka and Justin Thomas collectively have won five is that right five out of the last seven PJ Championship so two guys to keep out for obviously Justin Thomas Hometown very close to the golf course Donnie Sir Nick um love that PJ Championship preview next time we get together we’re going to be talking Us open at Pinehurst which I think will be fascinating Sir Nick we’re glad you’re feeling better we hope you heal heal up well and get the get some swing and get that par three contest soon um I’m on operation gazelle got to can’t wait to be leaping down the fairways again yeah appreciate it we hope you heal well guys thanks for watching we’ll see you all next time [Music]
